Ōyama Sutematsu
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Princess Ōyama Sutematsu was a Japanese socialite in the Meiji era, and the first Japanese woman to receive a college degree. She was born into a traditional samurai household which supported the Toku
Marchioness Ōyama Sutematsu in 1903
Battered Tsuruga Castle, Aizu, Fukushima (1868).
Kiyotaka Kuroda, who arranged to send the girls to study in America
Nagai Shige (age 10), Ueda Tei (14), Yoshimasu Ryo (14), Tsuda Ume (6) and Yamakawa Sutematsu (11), in Chicago, their first time wearing Western clothes.
Alice Mabel Bacon
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Alice Mabel Bacon was an American writer, women's educator and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government in Meiji period Japan.
Ōyama Sutematsu
…Stematz Yamakawa. Yamakawa lived in the household of Leonard Bacon in New Haven, Connecticut, becoming particularly close with his youngest daughter Alice Mabel Bacon. She learned English and graduated from Hillhouse High School, then attended Vassar College, the first nonwhite student at that fledgling women's…
Portrait of Alice Mabel Bacon from the Hampton University archives
Tsuda Umeko, Alice Mabel Bacon, Uryū Shigeko, Ōyama Sutematsu (from left to right)